All Oak Hills High School students electing to enroll in an Art and Design Department course will develop an Appreciation of the Arts, Creative Thinking and Problem Solving Skills, Interdisciplinary Connections, Social and Global Awareness, and Career Preparation related to Visual Communication.

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On a frigid November day, Studio Art AP students from Groh and Schorsch’s classes braved the elements to explore Miami Whitewater Forest with the help of our Interpreter of Nature, Will. These 2D Design, Drawing, and 2D Design Photography students will be participating in this year’s “Art in Root” program designed by the Great Parks of Hamilton County.

The Great Parks’ mission isn’t just preserving nature and providing education for future generations; it’s also committed to supporting the arts. “Art in Root” is a three-step program designed to create connections between high school students and nature through art. This program features a combination of a field trip to a park, an in-class visit and an art exhibition to immerse students in nature and translate their experiences into fine art. This year, artists will be working with the theme of “Winged Wonders” and will create artwork based on things with wings (birds, bats, insects, butterflies, etc.) that will be exhibited later this school year.

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Congratulations to the OHHS Art and Design student whose art was selected as a High Merit piece for the Summer 2018 Celebrating Art competition and publication! Having a High Merit award means the art was an exceptional piece. Out of thousands of entries received for the Summer 2018 contest, it stood out as being one of the top 5% submitted. Students who have art selected as High Merit work will receive special recognition in the book as it is displayed as a High Merit piece.

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The OHHS Drawing and Printmaking students will be exhibiting this year’s Memory Project portraits at the Fitton Center for Creative Arts. The Memory Project exhibition will showcase portraits created for the Rohingya refugee children before they are sent off for delivery by the organization. Compilation images of past portraits will be showcased as well to illustrate the OHHS students’ global impact through the works they’ve created as a part of The Memory Project, and hopefully inspire involvement from many more young artists.

The Memory Project is a charitable nonprofit organization that invites art teachers and their students to create and donate portraits to youth around the world who have faced substantial challenges, such as neglect, abuse, loss of parents, violence, and extreme poverty. Given that youth in such situations usually have few personal keepsakes, the purpose of the portraits is to provide them with meaningful mementos of their youth. The project also allows art students to practice kindness and global awareness while enhancing their portraiture skills.

Over the past three years, Drawing and Printmaking and NAHS students have created
over 140 portraits for children in Madagascar, the Philippines, and Syrian refugees in Jordan. This year the NAHS students are creating 12 portraits for children in Puerto Rico and Columbia and Drawing and Printmaking students are creating 50 portraits
for children in Rohingya. Below are descriptions of the countries provided by The Memory Project:

Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico has faced many economic challenges over the past decades. Lack of
adequate funding has forced many schools to close, and the percentage of
elementary students who qualify for free and reduced lunch is around 90%. Those
challenges were already present on the island before Hurricanes Irma and Maria
unleashed total destruction in September 2017.

Columbia
The children in this project all live in a very poor shanty town. Over the past
decades, many Colombians have fled to such shanty towns to escape the drug-
related violence, murders, and kidnappings in their country’s more rural areas.
Systemic poverty in these shanty towns leads to many on-going social problems,
especially for women and children. Fortunately, these children are being helped
by an organization that provides them with healthy nutrition and early childhood
education.

Rohingya
The Rohingya ethnic minority has been called the “most unwanted” group of
people on Earth. Nearly a million fled genocide in Rakhine Myanmar last year and are
currently sheltering in a huge refugee settlement in Bangladesh. Most of these
families have little more than a few cooking pans and a handful of clothes. For
these children, who have rarely seen photos of themselves, the portraits will be
gifts they could never have previously imagined.

The exhibition can be viewed in the 1st floor Community Gallery from December 4th through the 31st. There will be an opening reception on December 8th from 6:00-7:30 pm in conjunction with the Fitton Christmas Spectacular, a performance that begins at 7:30pm.The Fitton Center for Creative Arts is located at 101 S. Monument Ave, Hamilton, OH 45011.

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Congratulations to the following artists whose work was selected for the 2018 Biennial Regional High School Junior and Senior Juried Exhibition hosted by the Xavier University Department of Art.

Destanie Sexton “Vanities”

Maddie Allen “Daily Rituals”

Maddie Schwoeppe “Vanitas”

The competition was open to any artistic media including but not limited to painting, sculpture, graphic design, drawing, printmaking, fibers, ceramics, photography, digital imagery, jewelry, etc. There will be an opening Artist’s Reception on November 2nd from 5:00-8:00 pm with an Awards Presentation taking place at 7:00 pm. The exhibition will be on view to the public from November 2nd through the 20th in the A. B. Cohen Building Art Gallery on the Xavier University’s campus.

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“Celebrating Art” is devoted to the promotion and appreciation of student art. The intent of their student art contest is to motivate student artists. The top entries are published in an anthology that will record the creative works of today’s student artists.

Students recently submitted work and 30 OHHS Art and Design were invited to be published in the Summer 2018 “Celebrating Art”! Only the best art is selected to be included in the full-color hardbound art book, “Celebrating Art”. Additionally, final judging for “Top Ten Artist” and “High Merit Artist” awards will be completed and announced soon. The following students should feel honored. This is not a contest where every entry is invited to be published and is a highly selective competition. Thousands of entries were not invited to be published. Being published represents a lot of talent, hard work, and dedication from students.